Tree(Ziqi) Xu is a contemporary art practitioner working between China and the United Kingdom. His practice involves installation, moving image, and performance, investigating the entanglement between technological systems, ideological structures, and systemic violence. Through the appropriation of industrial materials and technological objects—such as surveillance devices, pipelines, and urban infrastructures—he constructs immersive environments that evoke a mechanical logic embedded within contemporary life.Tree’s methodology revolves around “apparatus critique”: a way of combining found materials, digital debris, historical fragments, and everyday images into spatial arrangements that confront the viewer with sensations of tension, rupture, and transformation. His works often incorporate kinetic elements, sound, 3D-printed forms, and prosthetic textures to blur boundaries between organic and synthetic, human and non-human. The creation of these mixtures was his path to reaching the Inhuman Horizon, intended to stir up primitive desires of meat in the nowadays audience's consciousness.Influenced by speculative memory and cinematic language, Tree seeks to create experiential fields where sensation becomes a site of resistance against the smoothness of ideological automation. His practice explores how affect, movement, and visual friction can challenge dominant representations shaped by technological modernity.

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He holds a MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and a BFA in Photography at Communication University of Zhejiang​

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